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He is introduced in the Book of Genesis as the son of Bethuel and the brother of Rebekah, making him the uncle of Jacob. Laban's account is intertwined with themes of family, deception, and divine providence. Family Background and Early Life Laban is a member of the Aramean people, residing in Paddan-aram, a region in Mesopotamia. His father, Bethuel, is a descendant of Nahor, Abraham's brother, which places Laban within the extended family of the patriarchs. This connection becomes crucial when Abraham sends his servant to find a wife for Isaac, leading to Rebekah's marriage to Isaac and establishing a familial link between Laban and the Israelite lineage. Laban and Jacob Laban's most notable biblical narrative begins when Jacob flees to Laban's household to escape the wrath of his brother Esau. Jacob arrives in Paddan-aram and falls in love with Laban's younger daughter, Rachel. In <a href="/genesis/29-18.htm">Genesis 29:18-20</a> , Jacob offers to serve Laban for seven years in exchange for Rachel's hand in marriage: "Jacob loved Rachel, so he answered, 'I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.' Laban replied, 'Better that I give her to you than to another man. Stay here with me.' So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, yet it seemed but a few days because of his love for her." However, Laban deceives Jacob by substituting his elder daughter, Leah, on the wedding night. When Jacob confronts Laban, he justifies his actions by citing local custom: "It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older" (<a href="/genesis/29-26.htm">Genesis 29:26</a>). Laban then agrees to give Rachel to Jacob in exchange for another seven years of service, highlighting his shrewd and opportunistic nature. Laban's Wealth and God's Blessing During Jacob's extended stay, Laban's wealth increases significantly, attributed to God's blessing upon Jacob. Laban acknowledges this in <a href="/genesis/30-27.htm">Genesis 30:27</a> : "But Laban replied, 'If I have found favor in your eyes, please stay. I have learned by divination that the LORD has blessed me because of you.'" Despite Laban's attempts to manipulate the terms of their agreement regarding the division of livestock, God ensures Jacob prospers, leading to tension between the two men. The Departure and Covenant Eventually, Jacob decides to return to Canaan with his family and possessions. He departs secretly, prompting Laban to pursue him. When they finally meet, Laban accuses Jacob of theft and deception, but God intervenes, warning Laban in a dream not to harm Jacob (<a href="/genesis/31-24.htm">Genesis 31:24</a>). The two men ultimately make a covenant at Mizpah, setting up a heap of stones as a witness to their agreement: "May the LORD keep watch between you and me when we are absent from each other" (<a href="/genesis/31-49.htm">Genesis 31:49</a>). Legacy and Significance Laban's interactions with Jacob reveal much about his character—cunning, self-serving, yet ultimately subject to God's sovereign will. His account serves as a backdrop to the unfolding narrative of God's covenant with the patriarchs, illustrating the complexities of family dynamics and the divine orchestration of events to fulfill His promises. Laban's legacy is thus intertwined with the broader themes of God's faithfulness and the unfolding plan of redemption through the lineage of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.<a name="hit" id="hit"></a><div class="vheading2">Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary</div>Labanwhite; shining; gentle; brittle<a name="smi" id="smi"></a><div class="vheading2">Smith's Bible Dictionary</div>Laban(white). <ol> <li>Son of Bethuel, brother of Rebekah and father of Leah and Rachel. (B.C. about 1860-1740.) The elder branch of the family remained at Haran, Mesopotamia, when Abraham removed to the land of Canaan, and it is there that we first meet with Laban, as taking the leading part in the betrothal of his sister Rebekah to her cousin Isaac. (<a href="/genesis/24-10.htm">Genesis 24:10,29-60</a>; <a href="/genesis/27-43.htm">27:43</a>; <a href="/genesis/29-5.htm">29:5</a>) The next time Laban appears in the sacred narrative it is as the host of his nephew Jacob at Haran. (<a href="/genesis/29-13.htm">Genesis 29:13,14</a>) [<a href="../j/jacob.htm">JACOB</a>] Jacob married Rachel and Leah, daughters of Laban, and remained with him 20 years, B.C. 1760-1740. But Laban's dishonest and overreaching practice toward his nephew shows from what source Jacob inherited his tendency to sharp dealing. Nothing is said of Laban after Jacob left him.</li> <li>One of the landmarks named in the obscure and disputed passage (<a href="/deuteronomy/1-1.htm">1:1</a>) The mention of Hezeroth has perhaps led to the only conjecture regarding Laban of which the writer is aware, namely, that it is identical with <a href="../l/libnah.htm">LIBNAH</a>. (<a href="/numbers/33-20.htm">Numbers 33:20</a>)</li> </ol><a name="amt" id="amt"></a><div class="vheading2">ATS Bible Dictionary</div>LabanA rich herdsman of Mesopotamia, son of Bethuel, and grandson of Mahor, Abraham's brother, <a href="/context/genesis/24-28.htm">Genesis 24:28-31</a>. His character is shown in the gladness with which he gave his sister Rebekah in marriage to the only son of his rich uncle, Abraham, <a href="/context/genesis/24-30.htm">Genesis 24:30</a>,50; and in his deceitful and exacting treatment of Jacob his nephew and son-inlaw, against which Jacob defended himself by cunning as well as fidelity. When the prosperity of the one family and the jealousy of the other rendered peace impossible, Jacob, at the command of God, secretly departed, to go to Canaan. Laban pursued him; but being warned by God to do him no harm, returned home after making a treaty of peace. He seems to have known and worshipped God, <a href="/genesis/24-50.htm">Genesis 24:50</a> 30:27 31:53; but the "gods" or teraphim which Rachel stole from her father, <a href="/context/genesis/31-30.htm">Genesis 31:30</a>,34, show that he was not without the taint of idolatry. <a name="eas" id="eas"></a><div class="vheading2">Easton's Bible Dictionary</div>White. (1.) The son of Bethuel, who was the son of Nahor, Abraham's brother. He lived at Haran in Mesopotamia. His sister Rebekah was Isaac's wife (<a href="/context/genesis/24.htm">Genesis 24</a>). Jacob, one of the sons of this marriage, fled to the house of Laban, whose daughters Leah and Rachel (ch. 29) he eventually married. (see <a href="../j/jacob.htm">JACOB</a>.)(2.) A city in the Arabian desert in the route of the Israelites (<a href="/deuteronomy/1-1.htm">Deuteronomy 1:1</a>), probably identical with Libnah (<a href="/numbers/33-20.htm">Numbers 33:20</a>). <a name="isb" id="isb"></a><div class="vheading2">International Standard Bible Encyclopedia</div>LABANla'-ban: The person named Laban, labhan; (Laban, possibly connected with the root meaning "to be white," from which in Hebrew the adjective meaning "white" has just this form) is first introduced to the reader of Genesis in the story of the wooing of Rebekah (Genesis 24). He belonged to that branch of the family of Terah that was derived from Abraham's brother Nahor and his niece Milcah. The genealogy of this branch is traced in <a href="/genesis/22-20.htm">Genesis 22:20-24</a>; but, true to its purpose and the place it occupies in the book, this genealogy brings the family down to Rebekah, and there stops without mentioning Laban. Accordingly, when Rebekah is introduced in the narrative of Genesis 24, she is referred to (24:15, 24) in a way that recalls to the reader the genealogy already given; but when her brother Laban is introduced (24:29), he is related to his sister by the express announcement, "And Rebekah had brother, and his name was Laban." In this chapter he takes prominent part in the reception of Abraham's servant, and in the determination of his sister's future. That brothers had an effective voice in the marriage of their sisters is evident, not only from extra-Biblical sources, but from the Bible itself; see e.g. <a href="/songs/8-8.htm">Songs 8:8</a>. In <a href="/nasb/genesis/24.htm">Genesis 24</a>, however, Laban is perhaps more prominent than even such custom can explain (compare 24:31, 50, 55), and we are led to see in him already the same forcefulness and egotism that are abundantly shown in the stories from his later life. The man's eager hospitality (verse 31), coming immediately after his mental inventory of the gifts bestowed by the visitor upon his sister (24:30), has usually, and justly, been regarded as a proof of the same greed that is his most conspicuous characteristic in the subsequent chapters. The story of that later period in Laban's life is so interwoven with the career of Jacob that little need here be added to what is said of Laban in JACOB, III, 2 (which see). By the time of Jacob's arrival he is already a very old man, for over 90 years had elapsed since Rebekah's departure. Yet even at the end of Jacob's 20 years' residence with him he is represented as still energetic and active (<a href="/genesis/31-19.htm">Genesis 31:19, 23</a>), not only ready for an emergency like the pursuit after Jacob, but personally superintending the management of his huge flocks. His home is in Haran, "the city of Nahor," that is, the locality where Nahor and his family remained at the time when the rest of Terah's descendants emigrated to Canaan (<a href="/genesis/11-31.htm">Genesis 11:31</a>; <a href="/genesis/12-5.htm">Genesis 12:5</a>). Since Haran, and the region about it where his flocks fed, belonged to the district called Aram (see PADDAN-ARAM; MESOPOTAMIA), Laban is often called "the Aramean" (English Versions of the Bible, "the Syrian," from Septuagint 5 ho Suros); see <a href="/genesis/25-20.htm">Genesis 25:20</a>; <a href="/genesis/28-5.htm">Genesis 28:5</a>; <a href="/genesis/31-20.htm">Genesis 31:20, 24</a>. It is uncertain how far racial affinity may be read into this term, because the origin and mutual relationships of the various groups or strata of the Sere family are not yet clear. For Laban himself it suffices that he was a Semite, living within the region early occupied by those who spoke the Sere dialect that we call Aramaic. This dialect is represented in the narrative of Genesis as already differentiated from the dialect of Canaan that was Jacob's mother-tongue; for "the heap of witness," erected by uncle and nephew before they part (<a href="/genesis/31-47.htm">Genesis 31:47</a>), is called by the one Jegar-saha-dutha and by the other Galeed-phrases which are equivalent in meaning, the former Aramaic, the latter Hebrew. (Ungnad, Hebrdische Grammatik, 1912, section 6 puts the date of the differentiation of Aramaic from "Amurritish" at "about 1500 B.C."; Skinner, "Genesis," ICC, argues that <a href="/genesis/31-47.htm">Genesis 31:47</a> is a gloss, following Wellhausen, Dillmann, et al.) The character of Laban is interesting to observe. On the one hand it shows a family likeness to the portraits of all his relations in the patriarchal group, preeminently, however, to his sister Rebekah, his daughter Rachel, and his nephew Jacob. The nearer related to Laban such figures are, the more conspicuously, as is fitting, do they exhibit Laban's mingled cunning, resourcefulness, greed and self-complacency. And, on the other hand, Laban's character is sui generis; the picture we get of him is too personal and complex to be denominated merely a "type." It is impossible to resolve this man Laban into a mythological personage-he is altogether human-or into a tribal representative (e.g. of "Syria" over against "Israel" equal Jacob) with any degree of satisfaction to the world of scholarship. Whether a character of reliable family tradition, or of popular story-telling, Laban is "a character"; and his intimate connection with the chief personage in Israel's national recollections makes it highly probable that he is no more and no less historical than Jacob himself (compare JACOB, VI). J. Oscar Boyd<a name="heb" id="heb"></a><div class="vheading2">Strong's Hebrew</div><a href="/hebrew/3837.htm">3837. Laban -- father-in-law of Jacob</a> ... 3836, 3837. Laban. 3837a . father-in-law of Jacob. Transliteration: Laban Phonetic Spelling: (law-bawn') Short Definition: Laban. Laban ... /hebrew/3837.htm - 5k <a href="/hebrew/3837a.htm">3837a. Laban -- father-in-law of Jacob</a> ... 3837, 3837a. Laban. 3837b . father-in-law of Jacob. Transliteration: Laban Short Definition: Laban. Word Origin from laben Definition ... /hebrew/3837a.htm - 5k <a href="/hebrew/3837b.htm">3837b. Laban -- a place in the Sinai desert</a> ... 3837a, 3837b. Laban. 3837c . a place in the Sinai desert. Transliteration: Laban Short Definition: Laban. Word Origin from laben ... /hebrew/3837b.htm - 5k <a href="/hebrew/3836.htm">3836. laban -- white</a> ... laban. 3837 . white. Transliteration: laban Phonetic Spelling: (law-bawn') Short Definition: white. ... 49:12) laben {law-bane'}; from laban; white -- white. ... /hebrew/3836.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/3835.htm">3835. laban -- to be white</a> ... 3834, 3835. laban. 3835a . to be white. Transliteration: laban Phonetic Spelling: (law-ban') Short Definition: brick. ... 3834, 3835. laban. 3835a . ... /hebrew/3835.htm - 5k <a href="/hebrew/3835b.htm">3835b. laban -- to make brick</a> ... 3835a, 3835b. laban. 3836 . to make brick. Transliteration: laban Short Definition: brick. ... 3835a, 3835b. laban. 3836 . Strong's Numbers. /hebrew/3835b.htm - 5k <a href="/hebrew/3026.htm">3026. Yegar Sahadutha -- "heap (of stones) of the testimony, " a ...</a> Yegar Sahadutha. 3025, 3026. Yegar Sahadutha. 3027 . "heap (of stones) of the testimony, " a memorial of Jacob and Laban. Transliteration: Yegar Sahadutha ... /hebrew/3026.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/3843.htm">3843. lebenah -- brick, tile</a> ... altar of brick, tile. From laban; a brick (from the whiteness of the clay) -- (altar of) brick, tile. see HEBREW laban. 3842, 3843. lebenah. 3844 . ... /hebrew/3843.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/3842.htm">3842. lebanah -- moon</a> ... moon. From laban; properly, (the) white, ie The moon -- moon. See also Lbana'. see HEBREW laban. see HEBREW Lbana'. 3841, 3842. lebanah. 3843 . ... /hebrew/3842.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/3845.htm">3845. Libni -- two Levites</a> ... Word Origin from laben Definition two Levites NASB Word Usage Libni (5). Libni. From laban; white; Libni, an Israelite -- Libni. see HEBREW laban. 3844, 3845 ... /hebrew/3845.htm - 6k<a name="lib" id="lib"></a><div class="vheading2">Library</div><a href="/library/lorenz/the_otterbein_hymnal/435_laban_s_m.htm">Laban. SM</a> ... 435 Laban. SM. Psalm 137. (914) I love thy kingdom, Lord! The house of thine abode, The church our blest Redeemer saved, With his own precious blood. ... //christianbookshelf.org/lorenz/the otterbein hymnal/435 laban s m.htm<a href="/library/lorenz/the_otterbein_hymnal/425_laban_s_m.htm">Laban. SM</a> ... 425 Laban. SM. Victory is on the Lord's Side. (765) Arise, ye saints, arise! The Lord our Leader is: The foe before his banner flies, And victory is his. ... //christianbookshelf.org/lorenz/the otterbein hymnal/425 laban s m.htm<a href="/library/lorenz/the_otterbein_hymnal/424_laban_s_m.htm">Laban. SM</a> ... 424 Laban. SM. The Panoply of God. (761) Soldiers of Christ! arise, And put your armor on," Strong, in the strength which God supplies ... //christianbookshelf.org/lorenz/the otterbein hymnal/424 laban s m.htm<a href="/library/lorenz/the_otterbein_hymnal/423_laban_s_m.htm">Laban. SM</a> ... 423 Laban. SM. Watchfulness and Prayer. (763) My soul, be on thy guard, Ten thousand foes arise: The hosts of sin are pressing hard To draw thee from the skies. ... //christianbookshelf.org/lorenz/the otterbein hymnal/423 laban s m.htm<a href="/library/severus/life_and_writings_of_sulpitius_severus_/chapter_ix_laban_had_two.htm">Laban had Two Daughters, Leah and Rachel; but Leah had Tender Eyes ...</a> ... The Sacred History Of Sulpitius Severus. Book I. Chapter IX. Laban had two daughters, Leah and Rachel; but Leah had tender eyes? ... /.../severus/life and writings of sulpitius severus /chapter ix laban had two.htm<a href="/library/sherman/the_childrens_bible/the_deceiver_deceived.htm">The Deceiver Deceived</a> ... Jacob said to the men, "My friends, from where do you come?" They said, "We are from Haran." Then he said to them, "Do you know Laban the son of Nahor?" And ... //christianbookshelf.org/sherman/the childrens bible/the deceiver deceived.htm<a href="/library/lathbury/childs_story_of_the_bible/chapter_v_jacob_a_prince.htm">Jacob, a Prince of God.</a> ... So Isaac called Jacob, and, blessing him again, sent him away into Syria to the house of Laban, where Rebekah had lived, and where Abraham's servant went to ... /.../lathbury/childs story of the bible/chapter v jacob a prince.htm<a href="/library/origen/origen_against_celsus/chapter_xliii_altogether_absurd_and.htm">"Altogether Absurd, and Out of Season," He Continues, "Is the ...</a> ... He ridicules, moreover, the acquisition of property made by Jacob while living with Laban, not understanding to what these words refer: "And those which had no ... /.../origen/origen against celsus/chapter xliii altogether absurd and.htm<a href="/library/sherman/the_childrens_bible/meeting_a_brother_who_had.htm">Meeting a Brother who had Been Wronged</a> ... But he heard Laban's sons say, "Jacob has taken all that was our father's, and from that which was our father's he has gotten all this wealth." He also saw ... /.../sherman/the childrens bible/meeting a brother who had.htm<a href="/library/josephus/the_antiquities_of_the_jews/chapter_16_how_isaac_took.htm">How Isaac Took Rebeka to Wife.</a> ... "They," says she, "call me Rebeka; my father was Bethuel, but he is dead; and Laban is my brother; and, together with my mother, takes care of all our family ... /.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 16 how isaac took.htm<a name="thes" id="thes"></a><div class="vheading2">Thesaurus</div><a href="/topical/l/laban.htm">Laban (52 Occurrences)</a> ... Jacob, one of the sons of this marriage, fled to the house of Laban, whose daughters Leah and Rachel (ch. 29) he eventually married. (see JACOB.). ...LABAN. ... /l/laban.htm - 28k<a href="/topical/l/laban's.htm">Laban's (6 Occurrences)</a> ... Multi-Version Concordance Laban's (6 Occurrences). Genesis 29:10 Then when Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his mother's ... /l/laban's.htm - 8k<a href="/topical/b/bethuel.htm">Bethuel (10 Occurrences)</a> ... be-thu'-el (bethu'el; "dweller in God"): A son of Nahor and Milcah, Abraham's nephew, father of Laban and Rebekah (Genesis 22:23; Genesis 24:15, 24, 47, 50; 25 ... /b/bethuel.htm - 11k<a href="/topical/r/rachel.htm">Rachel (42 Occurrences)</a> ... Ewe, "the daughter", "the somewhat petulant, peevish, and self-willed though beautiful younger daughter" of Laban, and one of Jacob's wives (Genesis 29:6, 28). ... /r/rachel.htm - 24k<a href="/topical/g/galeed.htm">Galeed (2 Occurrences)</a> ... Heap of witness, the name of the pile of stones erected by Jacob and Laban to Mark the league of friendship into which they entered with each other (Genesis 31 ... /g/galeed.htm - 8k<a href="/topical/a/answereth.htm">Answereth (144 Occurrences)</a> ... Genesis 24:50 And Laban answereth -- Bethuel also -- and they say, 'The thing hath gone out from Jehovah; we are not able to speak unto thee bad or good; (YLT). ... /a/answereth.htm - 36k<a href="/topical/f/flocks.htm">Flocks (128 Occurrences)</a> ... (BBE). Genesis 30:36 He set three days' journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS NAS NIV). ... /f/flocks.htm - 38k<a href="/topical/f/flock.htm">Flock (242 Occurrences)</a> ... Genesis 29:10 It happened, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother, that Jacob went near ... /f/flock.htm - 39k<a href="/topical/k/kissed.htm">Kissed (26 Occurrences)</a> ... Genesis 29:13 It happened, when Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister's son, that he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him ... /k/kissed.htm - 14k<a href="/topical/k/kisseth.htm">Kisseth (14 Occurrences)</a> ... Genesis 29:13 And it cometh to pass, when Laban heareth the report of Jacob his sister's son, that he runneth to meet him, and embraceth him, and kisseth him ... /k/kisseth.htm - 10k<a name="res" id="res"></a><div class="vheading2">Resources</div><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/Laban-in-the-Bible.html">Who was Laban in the Bible? | GotQuestions.org</a> <a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/Rachel-in-the-Bible.html">Who was Rachel in the Bible? | GotQuestions.org</a> <a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/life-Jacob.html">Who was Jacob in the Bible? | GotQuestions.org</a> <a href="/concordance/">Bible Concordance</a> • <a href="/dictionary/">Bible Dictionary</a> • <a href="/encyclopedia/">Bible Encyclopedia</a> • <a href="/topical/">Topical Bible</a> • <a href="/thesaurus/">Bible Thesuarus</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="cnc" id="cnc"></a><div class="vheading2">Concordance</div>Laban (52 Occurrences)<a href="/genesis/24-29.htm">Genesis 24:29</a> Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. Laban ran out to the man, to the spring. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/24-32.htm">Genesis 24:32</a> Then the man came into the house, and Laban took their cords off the camels and gave them dry grass and food, and he gave to him and the men who were with him water for washing their feet. (BBE NAS RSV)<a href="/genesis/24-33.htm">Genesis 24:33</a> Food was set before him to eat, but he said, "I will not eat until I have told my message." He said, "Speak on." (See NIV)<a href="/genesis/24-50.htm">Genesis 24:50</a> Then Laban and Bethuel answered, "The thing proceeds from Yahweh. We can't speak to you bad or good. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/25-20.htm">Genesis 25:20</a> Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/27-43.htm">Genesis 27:43</a> Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/28-2.htm">Genesis 28:2</a> Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/28-5.htm">Genesis 28:5</a> Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, Rebekah's brother, Jacob's and Esau's mother. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/29-5.htm">Genesis 29:5</a> He said to them, "Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor?" They said, "We know him." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/29-10.htm">Genesis 29:10</a> It happened, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/29-13.htm">Genesis 29:13</a> It happened, when Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister's son, that he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/29-14.htm">Genesis 29:14</a> Laban said to him, "Surely you are my bone and my flesh." He lived with him for a month. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/29-15.htm">Genesis 29:15</a> Laban said to Jacob, "Because you are my brother, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?" (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/29-16.htm">Genesis 29:16</a> Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/29-19.htm">Genesis 29:19</a> Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/29-21.htm">Genesis 29:21</a> Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/29-22.htm">Genesis 29:22</a> Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/29-24.htm">Genesis 29:24</a> Laban gave Zilpah his handmaid to his daughter Leah for a handmaid. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/29-25.htm">Genesis 29:25</a> It happened in the morning that, behold, it was Leah. He said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me? Didn't I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?" (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/29-26.htm">Genesis 29:26</a> Laban said, "It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/29-28.htm">Genesis 29:28</a> And Jacob did so; and when the week was ended, Laban gave him his daughter Rachel for his wife. (BBE RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/29-29.htm">Genesis 29:29</a> Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah, his handmaid, to be her handmaid. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/29-30.htm">Genesis 29:30</a> Then Jacob took Rachel as his wife, and his love for her was greater than his love for Leah; and he went on working for Laban for another seven years. (BBE NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/30-25.htm">Genesis 30:25</a> It happened, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, "Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/30-27.htm">Genesis 30:27</a> Laban said to him, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that Yahweh has blessed me for your sake." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/30-31.htm">Genesis 30:31</a> And Laban said, What am I to give you? And Jacob said, Do not give me anything; but I will again take up the care of your flock if you will only do this for me: (BBE)<a href="/genesis/30-34.htm">Genesis 30:34</a> Laban said, "Behold, let it be according to your word." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/30-36.htm">Genesis 30:36</a> He set three days' journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/30-40.htm">Genesis 30:40</a> Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the black in the flock of Laban: and he put his own droves apart, and didn't put them into Laban's flock. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/30-42.htm">Genesis 30:42</a> but when the flock were feeble, he didn't put them in. So the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/31-1.htm">Genesis 31:1</a> He heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, "Jacob has taken away all that was our father's. From that which was our father's, has he gotten all this wealth." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/31-2.htm">Genesis 31:2</a> Jacob saw the expression on Laban's face, and, behold, it was not toward him as before. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/31-12.htm">Genesis 31:12</a> He said,'Now lift up your eyes, and behold, all the male goats which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled, for I have seen all that Laban does to you. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/31-19.htm">Genesis 31:19</a> Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father's. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/31-20.htm">Genesis 31:20</a> Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he didn't tell him that he was running away. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/31-22.htm">Genesis 31:22</a> Laban was told on the third day that Jacob had fled. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/31-24.htm">Genesis 31:24</a> God came to Laban, the Syrian, in a dream of the night, and said to him, "Take heed to yourself that you don't speak to Jacob either good or bad." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/31-25.htm">Genesis 31:25</a> Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped in the mountain of Gilead. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/31-26.htm">Genesis 31:26</a> Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword? (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/31-31.htm">Genesis 31:31</a> Jacob answered Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I said,'Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.' (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/31-33.htm">Genesis 31:33</a> Laban went into Jacob's tent, into Leah's tent, and into the tent of the two female servants; but he didn't find them. He went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/31-34.htm">Genesis 31:34</a> Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, put them in the camel's saddle, and sat on them. Laban felt about all the tent, but didn't find them. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/31-36.htm">Genesis 31:36</a> Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, "What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued after me? (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/31-43.htm">Genesis 31:43</a> Laban answered Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine: and what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne? (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/31-47.htm">Genesis 31:47</a> Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/31-48.htm">Genesis 31:48</a> Laban said, "This heap is witness between me and you this day." Therefore it was named Galeed (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/31-51.htm">Genesis 31:51</a> Laban said to Jacob, "See this heap, and see the pillar, which I have set between me and you. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/31-55.htm">Genesis 31:55</a> Early in the morning, Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. Laban departed and returned to his place. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/32-4.htm">Genesis 32:4</a> He commanded them, saying, "This is what you shall tell my lord, Esau:'This is what your servant, Jacob, says. I have lived as a foreigner with Laban, and stayed until now. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/46-18.htm">Genesis 46:18</a> These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob, even sixteen souls. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/46-25.htm">Genesis 46:25</a> These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob: all the souls were seven. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/deuteronomy/1-1.htm">Deuteronomy 1:1</a> These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah over against Suph, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a name="sub" id="sub"></a><div class="vheading2">Subtopics</div><a href="/topical/l/laban.htm">Laban</a><a href="/topical/naves/l/laban--brother_of_rebekah.htm">Laban: Brother of Rebekah</a><a href="/topical/naves/l/laban--jacob_becomes_his_servant.htm">Laban: Jacob Becomes his Servant</a><a href="/topical/naves/l/laban--outwitted_by_jacob.htm">Laban: Outwitted by Jacob</a><a href="/topical/naves/l/laban--pursues_jacob,_overtakes_him_at_mount_gilead,_and_covenants_with_him.htm">Laban: Pursues Jacob, Overtakes Him at Mount Gilead, and Covenants With Him</a><a href="/topical/naves/l/laban--receives_jacob,_and_gives_him_his_daughters_in_marriage.htm">Laban: Receives Jacob, and Gives Him his Daughters in Marriage</a><a href="/topical/naves/l/laban--receives_the_servant_of_abraham.htm">Laban: Receives the Servant of Abraham</a><a href="/topical/naves/l/laban--son_of_bethuel.htm">Laban: Son of Bethuel</a><a name="rel" id="rel"></a><div 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